Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks was a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, where he studied postwar United States political history with Professor Bruce J. Schulman. Born in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, he moved to Boston after completing his M.A. at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Henry’s research is concerned with the remaking of modern American liberalism, focusing on Democratic Party presidential primaries and the rise of the “New Democrats” in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Beyond an interest in politics past and present, Henry is enthusiastic about seventies cinema, American art museums, and city breaks.

Meet Henry Tonks, the 2022 MONUM Summer Fellow